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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Carlton feel about what Miah is going through, regarding his parents?

2. How does Ellie feel about being a loner?

3. Why is Ellie attending Percy?

4. What does Jeremiah admit to Carlton about Ellie?

5. What does Ellie call Anne before hanging up on her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the cause of Ellie's inability to fully love and trust her mother, Marion?

2. Why does Anne call Ellie?

3. How does Jeremiah end up in Ellie's history class?

4. How does Jeremiah feel about being Black when in his own community?

5. Why does Jeremiah now attend Percy?

6. How does Anne react when she finds out Jeremiah is Black?

7. How do Ellie and Jeremiah first meet?

8. How does Jeremiah feel now that his parents are separated?

9. How does Ellie respond when her father asks her about the boy from school?

10. What is Carlton's response to Miah when asked about being biracial?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do Ellie and Jeremiah feel about their relationship? What can be learned from Jeremiah's and Ellie's attitude about their relationship? What message is the reader supposed to get from this relationship?

Essay Topic 2

What is the tone of If You Come Softly? What affects the tone? How does the language used by the author, the personalities of the characters, and the plot influence the tone? What else influences the tone? How does this tone, in turn, affect the reader?

Essay Topic 3

How does the portion of the poem in Part 2, Chapter 25 relate to this story and its two protagonists? What is the connection of this poem and the portion Miah recites earlier in this novel? What role does it play in the story?

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